Messy Desk

May Projects

2007-05-29T00:45:00.000-05:00

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My Journal -- Web Debut!
Life in Chicago viewed through a cell phone.

Announcing the debut of my new
on-line project "My Journal."

This image-based journal that begins on
May 29, 2007 was created to present a casual view of my everyday life as an artist in Chicago. Constructed completely from images and video taken on my T-Mobile cellphone, the photo journal is appropriately hosted on the T-Mobile pictures website! I can also credit T-Mobile with the catchy title: "My Journal" -- (which is included on the site free of charge, and can't be changed.)

Different than the Messy Desk, and Travel Journal 2007 weblogs that are more centered on travel, "My Journal" presents a personal view of the ever-changing landscape of the city where I work and live.

Click on different highlighted calendar dates or "most recent entry" to see photos and read journal text. You can also click on the "My Journal" heading and view all the entries in sequence. Also, because the journal is public there's no need to sign in to view the pictures.

Take a browse through the images and entries and feel free to leave your comments by clicking on each image to view a close-up and comment window.

Now it's up to you to decide the answer to the question, "Is it Art?"

IMPORTANT NOTE to Mac users:

Be sure to use Firefox as your browser or images won't appear clearly.
Safari will not work to view My Journal.
(PC users' browsers should work fine to view the images.)

To go directly to My Journal click on the "My Journal" in the links column to the right,
or type in the web address:
http://www.t-mobilepictures.com/mbnoble/myjournal

Be sure to return periodically to see new images and photos!

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Still on view through May 11th 2007

"Big Sky"

This exhibition "pays homage to the sky and all of its proponents."

School of the Art Institute of Chicago
LG Space
37 S. Wabash Ave., #220
Chicago, IL 60603
(312) 899-5131

(For more information such as gallery hours and directions,
view the post dated April 7th below.)

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Gallery Photos, Relationships

2007-05-02T02:05:00.000-05:00

"Relationships" at the Jean Albano Gallery in Chicago was a terrific-looking show, and a great theme idea. As an artist who has been invited to participate in several of this gallery's group exhibitions, this was the most interesting one I can remember.

This show of work by contemporary artists, was framed around the theme of relationships. This idea included not only work that had a type of relationship in the content imagery, but the show was also designed to feature work that was created by well-known artist couples who are in a "relationship."

Because most of my new work was being exhibited in Sofia, and Prague at the time, it was a challenge to come up with an interesting solution to the exhibition theme.

I ended up exhibiting two pieces that formerly had no "relationship" to each other whatsoever, (to be honest.) Miraculously when I placed the two pieces together, a print called "Wonder Woman" and a drawing called "Cowboy Capitol"
it was instant magnetic attraction.

[Images: "Wonder Woman" 2006 single color linocut print, Ed. 10, 8" x 6"
and "Cowboy Capitol, 2006 India ink on paper, 8" x 7"]

Even though the two works on paper are created by totally different methods, ink scratchboard vs. blockprinting, the size, tone & content worked somehow. Perhaps it's luck --

or perhaps its LOVE! Whatever the case, these two American heroes were destined to be together.

Organizing a wide variety of artists with an even wider variety of work is not easy, but in this Winter show, Jean Broday and her team Sarah, Lindsey & Emanuel did a dynamite job.

[Image above: features screenprint by Hague Williams]

Many of the participants were couples who both make work, such as Tony Phillips and Judith Raphael or artmaking families like the Wirsums.

The show included some artists who's work I greatly respect such as Margaret Wharton, Jules Fieffer, Gladys Nilsson, Karl Wirsum, and of course Hague Williams. It was great to be in this exhibition with such excellent creative company.

[Image features the work of Karl Wirsum]

Thank you, Jean!

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Content, Permissions & Contact

2007-04-14T16:52:00.000-05:00

Messy Desk, 2006 - 2007
Content & Permissions

Please find below technical details, contact information, and content description for Messy Desk.

Messy Desk
web address: http://www.merrybethnoble.blogspot.com
Copyright 2006, 2007 Merry-Beth Noble
is an informational weblog that discusses art, exhibitions, art-education research, travel and creative projects.

My Journal, address: http://www.t-mobilepictures.com/mbnoble/myjournal
Travel Journal 2007: http://www.traveljournal2007.blogspot.com
Paper Chase 2006: http://www.paperchase2006.blogspot.com
are connected weblog projects by the same author that are found under the conceptual and cyber umbrella of Messy Desk.

Unless otherwise noted or credited, the text on this site is written by:
Merry-Beth Noble, MFA
Artist and Educator
at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
and the International Academy of Design & Technology,
Chicago, Illinois, USA
and Author of this site.

All images unless noted otherwise are taken by: Noble.
Noble is also solely responsible for the content of this weblog. Please feel free to contact her for further questions at the Email address listed below. Also feel free to leave comments within each post by clicking on the "comments" button at the end of each entry. Certain objects and artworks on this site may be available for purchase or exhibition loan. Please send an Email with your specific project inquiry and your message will be returned. Press may also contact Noble at the Email address below.

[Image at the right features
handmade ceramic
plate by artist Edith Abeyta]

In the spirit of collaboration, education and communication, Noble welcomes interaction and references made to this site and requests that credit be given to Noble when this content is used. Permission to use images and quotes may be obtained by contacting her at the following Email address:

Merry-Beth Noble
mnoble@saic.edu

Your support and interest in this weblog is appreciated, and please keep re-visiting this site to see the latest news and updates. Thank you for visiting Messy Desk!

--- Merry-Beth Noble

April Projects

2007-04-07T18:01:00.000-05:00

"Big Sky" Exhibition

[Image: "Invisible Paper Airplane"
2004, (detail) Acrylic and collage
on paper 20" x 16"]

Opening Reception
Thursday, April 19, 2007
4-6PM

School of the Art Institute of Chicago
LG Space
37 S. Wabash Ave., #220
Chicago, IL 60603
(312) 899-5131

This exhibition "pays homage to the sky and all of its proponents."

My humorous attempt at invisibility, a dimensional work on paper, originally inspired by the watercolor paintings of Gladys Nilsson, is included in this group show. Curated by Jennifer Gill, a former Prague Studio Program student, "Big Sky" is an eclectic collection of works that all seem to be ... looking up.

Exhibition runs April 19 - May 11, 2007
gallery hours:
Tues - Fri 12:30 - 5:30PM
(Sat. by appointment)

(Located in the Sharp building of SAIC.
Cross street Monroe, in the Chicago Loop.
Adams stop from CTA Loop trains.)
http://www.sugs.info/exhibits/upcoming/

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Play It Ground
exhibition in Los Angeles

Closing Reception

[Image: "Thunder" 2006 (detail)
Acrylic, Prismacolor and
collage on paper 10" x 8"]

I have the fortunate opportunity to be in Los Angeles with fellow artist, Hague Williams to attend the closing reception of "Play It Ground." This diverse group show has a wide variety of work in all types of media. Please join us as we celebrate the exhibition's successful run! Come by for one last opportunity to purchase work, or visit with the artists.

Saturday, April 14th
6PM - 9PM

Don O'Melveny Gallery
5472 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(310) 686-5613
(between Fairfax and La Brea in mid-Wilshire)

(For more information check the previous post from March 18th below.)
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Video Animations Screened at DePaul University

[Image: "A Knock at the Door" 2004-2005, video still,
digital video animation]

A small collection of my video animations will be shown at DePaul University as part of the Experimenta 1 Video course this month. "Animated Pages" 2006, "Photo Double" 2005, and the stop-motion battle of a monstrous intruder, "A Knock at the Door" 2004-2005 will be shown by Susan Giles, in this introductory college video class.

[Image: "A Knock at the Door" 2004-2005,
video stills of animated sequence]

I am pleased to have been invited to be a part of Giles' curriculum. In addition, she will present this blog, "Messy Desk" and my on-going virtual book, "Travel Journal 2007" to her students, as examples of new media and traditional forms working together in an artist's practice.

[Image: "Animated Pages" 2006,
video still, digital video animation]

Experimenta 1 Video Course
Department of Art and Art History
DePaul University, Chicago, IL
Susan Giles, Faculty

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Views of Prague, Winter 2007

2007-03-20T10:31:00.000-05:00

I returned to Prague this winter to work with SAIC's Prague Studio Program and to attend the Dekadence Symposium at the Obecní Dům.

As faculty of the program, we also presented our work in the concurrent Dekadence themed exhibition, "Dekadence Dance,"

at Academie of Fine Arts, Prague (AVU) in the AVU Gallerie.

The show was well attended with Czech and American students and faculty at the opening,

along with friends, and of course,

dogs!

[Image: Prague drawing in Mini-Sketchbook, 2006,
Ink and pencil on paper, 2" x 3"]

Besides showing a small book and decadent "Fire Mask,"

I exhibited several series of new drawings and works on paper presented in arrangements,

[Image: "Bohemian Lion" 2007, (detail)
Gold colored pencil on paper with cut-outs,
8" x 6"]

along with video animations I created while working in Prague.

[Video Still, "Photo Double" 2005]

[Astronomical Clock, Prague,
19 January, 2007]

Some notes on the passage of time:

Always a source of inspiration, Prague never gets old to me and is different every time I visit, yet some iconic views of the city are comforting because they seem to never change over the years.

Even though enduring views of the city are reliably the same, why is it that the impulse to snap a photo occurs, even when we already have the photograph?

Why do we take the same picture again?

When do we stop photographing the landmarks? When the landmarks reside in our home town, does the need to photograph them disappear? Are they less special when they are more familiar?

[Pražký hrad (Prague Castle)]

[View from across the Vltava River, 6th January, 2007.
Beginning of trip to Prague.]

[View from across the Vltava River, 20th January, 2007.
End of trip to Prague.]

Besides capturing images, or "taking" a memory of Prague with a photograph, many others have left their mark behind as a memento for others to see instead.

There is contemporary graffiti

and vintage graffiti,
making it clear to anyone who takes the time to read the names and years, that leaving a sign or a personal mark...

is an act that has been going on for centuries, and graffiti is not a new form of avant garde defiance, but a timeless form of expression. In this way, the signature and date is not only the mark of graffiti, but the claim of authorship; the message to the viewer of the future, that says,

"I was here at this time. Remember me."

One can say, as time passes, the object may stay the same, but the meaning changes.

Once a standard issue vehicle, associated with inferior mechanical quality, now the Tribant is a retro-kitsch object of desire.

Prague still has many of these functioning relics of transportation, such as the Tribant automobile, and the ever-popular Autobus.

On this trip we were able to take an autobus trip to the Holocaust memorial site in the walled city of Terezín.

Besides statistics and stories scripted in the wall text of the museum and recited by the guide, the place itself speaks the most powerfully through its silence.

This is because of the evidence that has been left behind.

The residents of the town during WWII still speak to us today through the objects that remain there. Whether a conscious act to bear witness, or an expression of authorship at the moment of creation, the city and prison of Terezín has these remnants that serve as marks of human lives; images, numbers, words, dates, signatures -- graffiti.

These carvings have been left on a stone doorway outside the prison of Terezín.

Are they the signs from a victim, a captor, or a viewer?

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February and March Projects

2007-03-18T20:29:00.000-05:00

"Play It Ground"
group show

at Don O'Melveny Gallery
Los Angeles, California

Opening Reception
6 - 9 PM
Saturday, March 24, 2007

[Image: "USA Cola" 2006
Four-color reductive linocut,
4" x 3"]

In my home town, the City of Angels, a selection of my newest drawings and prints will be on view in this group exhibition. Addressing themes of "ground" as a formal device, and "play" as a conceptual theme, this show promises to be very strong. Organized by Yong Sin of L.A., "Play It Ground" will host a variety of work by talented and exciting artists including my close colleagues, Edith Abeyta and Hague Williams.

gallery address:
5472 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(310) 686-5613
(between Fairfax and La Brea in mid-Wilshire)

[Image: "Thunder" 2006 (detail)
Acrylic, Prismacolor and collage on paper
10" x 8"]

Gallery Hours:
Wed - Sat 12:00PM - 5:00PM
Show runs from March 24th - April 15, 2007

16 participating artists:

Edith Abeyta
Amy Caterina
Chris Elliott
Lauren Gabriele
Mary Cecile Gee
Betsy Lohrer Hall
davidmichaellee
Robbie Miller
Kimiko Miyoshi
Merry-Beth Noble
Lisa Romero
Michael Shaw
Yong Sin
S. Ian Song
Hoang Vu
Hague Williams

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"Something's Brewing" Collaborative Project
in Leiden, the Netherlands

Designed and organized by Edith Abeyta and Judith Thissen,
beer brewed by Robert Tower.

Part of the Co-Op program initiated by Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. Exhibition will take place at the Lakenhal Museum in Leiden, Netherlands in December 2007.

"Fashion Design for Beer"

I will be participating in the "Something's Brewing" Project by contributing beer label designs as a series of hand-made multiples.

Taking my design cues from the Dutch beer brand "Heineken" brewed locally there, I have transformed my labels into fashion design for beer bottles. The result is "irresistible."

Ready to adorn Abeyta's Something's Brewing bottles of delicious home-brewed beer, my labels (or bottle fashions) are eager to make their sparkling debut in Holland!

This exciting project developed as a combination of art and scientific research by Abeyta, Thissen & Tower will be a multi-location event and exhibit in the Netherlands from Spring until the end of the year.

Because the opportunity to design a unique label for home-brewed beer provides a practical and creative challenge for young graphic designers, my students in senior level graphic design will be contributing a group entry as a student assignment. (Stay tuned for images and updates as a future web log.)

This project is currently open for participation from contributors. Entries must be received by April 1st via Email or US Postal. For more information please visit the websites listed below:

Co-op Project website:
http://www.co-ops.nl/
Something's Brewing page. To participate, get downloads, deadlines and mailing addresses:
http://www.co-ops.nl/site/co-ops/coops-general_info/item/33
For more info about the artists organizing the project:
http://www.co-ops.nl/site/co-ops/coops-general_info/project-general_information/2

or click on the following titles in the Links column to the right:
"Edith Abeyta" - Abeyta's blog and project info.
"Co-Ops Website" - Exploring new territories in art & science, Leiden, Netherlands.
"Something's Brewing" - Project web page

[Some images for this entry obtained on the Heineken website: http://www.heinekin.com/global/ date searched: 03/11/07]

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Relationships Show at the Jean Albano Gallery still on view through Saturday March 3rd, 2007:
Final Week
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"Relationships"
at the Jean Albano Gallery
January 5 - March 3, 2007

[Image: "Wonder Woman" 2006,
single color linocut print, Ed. 10, 8" x 6" detail]

Opens Friday January 5, 2007
5:30 - 7:30PM

See my new works on paper that are part of this group show presenting direct and indirect artistic responses to all types of "Relationships." Many of the exhibitors are artists who are well-known relationship partners.

Gallery is located at 215 W. Superior St.,
Chicago, IL 60610
(312) 440-0770
Just south of the Chicago CTA Brown Line Stop,
between Franklin and Wells.

Gallery hours: Tues. - Fri. 10A - 5P
Sat. 11A - 5P

(For more information please visit the website
http://www.jeanalbanogallery.com/
or click on "Jean Albano Gallery" under Links.)

Dreary Dreamy Dresden

2007-02-12T22:17:00.000-06:00

We had our first trip by train to Dresden Germany this winter.

The city is home to the artist group Die Brücke, and world famous porcelain.

Even though the cold wind was fierce,

the architecture in the city was amazing,

with the dreary skies and shifting sunlight creating dramatic views.

The famous Frauenkirche bombed by the Allies in WWII is now re-constructed or replicated from scratch,

except for this one section that remained standing as a ruin for 50 years.

Formerly in East Germany, and under a socialist government, many massive Communist structures occupy the town center, built after the US destroyed the city.

Until we come back again, auf wiedersehen, Dresden...

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New Year In Berlin

2007-02-01T23:00:00.000-06:00

Berlin was our city of choice to celebrate 2007!

New technology allowed for a second layer of visual experience

as we all took digital images, text-messaged friends, and shot video of the transition from 2006 into 2007. Being there is great, but even better when the images of real-time experience can be passed onto others.

Brandenburger Tor, (Brandenburg Gate,) previously the sign of separation and a divided city, was the meeting place for the Neues Jahr Celebration, full of energy, life and hope for the future.

All types of people -- thousands of them-- gathered to celebrate together, Berliners and foreigners as well -- even people with no heads.

"I Feel Like Dancin, Dancin!" No it wasn't a Communist Disco reunion, it was Scissor Sisters, the headline act ringing in the new year.

Thanks to the magic of the big screen, their performance was simultaneously live and on video.

We stayed in the former center of the former West Berlin, right off the Ku-Damm, near one of my favorite monuments: the Kaiser Wilhelm Kirche ruins, nearly destroyed in WWII.

Besides celebrating the New Year, visits to see art exhibitions were at the top of our list. How can one resist a museum with the name Hamburger? Be careful! Those florescent lights just may be art!

Which is an authentic work of art in a train station?

Swarovksi Cyrstals on a Tree in the Hauptbahnhof?

or Felix Gonzalez-Torres Candy in the Hamburger Bahnhof?

Is all that paper on the floor worth anything? The mad scramble for art-souvineer became frantic at closing time.

The party has finally come to an end.

Until the next visit, Berlin is again a memory.

January Projects

2007-01-05T16:55:00.000-06:00

Exhibition Opening Tuesday, 16 January 2007

Decadence in Prague

[Image: "Fire Mask" 2006-07,
plaster, acrylic paint, collage, 12" x 8" x 4"]

The hauntingly mysterious city of Prague, is both beautiful and simultaneously dark. This place is the source of creative inspiration for many artists over the centuries. Decadence is a fitting syndrome for the artist in Prague because it embodies both lovely elegance and the depths of the abyss. Within decadence, one is able to create and at the same time destroy. The incessant cycle of this artistic struggle leaves one crying for more.

[Image: "Garden of Eden" 2006, Ink on paper, 8" x 6" detail]

This January, a group exhibition adressing the theme of Decadence will open at the Academy of Fine Arts - Prague, (AVU) in the Czech Republic. This show of work by faculty of the School of the Art Institute's legendary Prague Studio Program will be organized in cooperation with the Decadence in Prague Symposium and the Contemporary Decadence exhibition now on view at the Obečni Dům in Prague's old town.

[Image: "Photo Double" 2005, video still, digital video animation, DVD RT 4:00]

I will exhibit a wide range of my work, including mixed media works on paper, prints, drawings and video animations. Although these works intentionally reflect my American perspective of contemporary culture, many of these pieces were created while I was in Prague, or Central and Eastern Europe and they combine beautiful European visual motifs with pervasive images of American advertising and media.

[Image: "Gambler" 2006-07,
acrylic and collage on paper, 12" x 9" detail view]

Celebrating 7 Years of Cooperation between the faculty of
Akademie výtvarných uméní v Praze and
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Exhibit opens Tuesday, 16, January, 2007
at Galerie AVU
19:00 - 21:00 Vernisáž
Akademie Vyntarích Umění, AVU
U Akademie 4
Praha 7
Prague, Czech Republic

Artists include:
Veronika Bromová
Jan Hísek
Pavel Klavaná
Igor Korpaczewski
Alan Labb
Martin Mainer
Merry-Beth Noble
Hague Williams
Richard Willenbrink

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Travel Journal Debut!
January 2007

Introducing the debut of an exciting new project designed to present my personal sketchbooks as a 4-D virtual form available to viewers on line. The Travel Journal weblog is a way for me to alter the book into a new media form which is something I am exploring in my work. This weblog also allows friends and new visitors to keep up with me and my work while I am traveling abroad.

Each individual page of the journal will be posted without editing. The images are also shown without any additional descriptive text other than the page dates as post titles. I will create posts of each day from the book; some which have several pages and moving parts. This weblog is organized so you can read along with me as I travel, and revisit the blog to see additional new posts as I continue to work on the journal.

My current Travel Journal January 2007, covers my weeks in Prague, Czech Republic and other nearby cities, where I am working with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. An area I have been to many times, and am very fond of, I am still able to see new things in Prague, and I find this place a great source of creative inspiration.

To visit this new project go to my Profile and click "Travel Journal" under blogs, or simply click on "Travel Journal" under Links.

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"Relationships"
at the Jean Albano Gallery
January 5 - March 3, 2007

[Image: "Wonder Woman" 2006,
single color linocut print, Ed. 10, 8" x 6" detail]

Opens Friday January 5, 2007
5:30 - 7:30PM

See my new works on paper that are part of this group show presenting direct and indirect artistic responses to all types of "Relationships." Many of the exhibitors are artists who are well-known relationship partners.

Gallery is located at 215 W. Superior St.,
Chicago, IL 60610
(312) 440-0770
Just south of the Chicago CTA Brown Line Stop,
between Franklin and Wells.

Gallery hours: Tues. - Fri. 10A - 5P
Sat. 11A - 5P

(For more information please visit the website
http://www.jeanalbanogallery.com/
or click on "Jean Albano Gallery" under Links.)

Winter 2006

2007-01-04T13:18:00.000-06:00

Winter cityscape in Chicago

After working hard this year, I was fortunate to have a very Merry Christmas as I traveled to many places during the season.

Wall mural from the Rila Monastery, Bulgaria.

On the way home from opening our successful exhibits in Sofia, Bulgaria at Lessedra Gallery, we were able spend one day in Munich because our flight was delayed. (Sofia exhibition photos coming soon.)

I made a visit to the world-famous Hofbrau House in Munich's old town.

When we returned we enjoyed a early Christmas celebration at home with Niki all dressed up for the occasion on December 23rd, Christmas Eve Eve.

This year I went with fake for the first time ever! Fake is fabulous when it's a silver tinsel tree!

On Christmas Eve we traveled to Charlotte, North Carolina, and enjoyed classic holiday foods, such as the green cornflake marshmallow wreath.

Santa and his reindeer paid a visit of course.

Reindeer food.

Before Santa.

After Santa.

Fireplace in North Carolina.

Fireplace in South Carolina.

Later we drove to Salem, South Carolina and on the way, paid the local ostrich a visit.

Merry Christmas 2006!

Photos, Converging Patterns

2007-01-04T13:16:00.000-06:00

The opening event for Converging Patterns took place on December 18th, 2006 at Chicago's Hyde Park Art Center in their new space.

Located right in my neighborhood, the beautifully renovated building is a great venue for artists and exhibitions of all types.

The artwork and fashion design in the show addressed future concerns of changing temperatures due to to global warming with a variety of creative approaches.

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago faculty and students mingled with guests, sampling futuristic food and drinks.

This designer outfit made from metal screen mesh added to the futuristic milieu.

My project, the Climate Change Paper Fan Series was a series of darkly humorous concept designs presented as inkjet prints of digital images.

Climate Change Paper Fan Series, 2006, inkjet prints on paper 24 x 18 inches each.

"One World" Paper Fan, 2006

Don't forget... It's not "Global Warming" it's "Climate Change"!

December Projects

2006-12-08T16:49:00.000-06:00

Converging Patterns Exhibition
at the Hyde Park Art Center 
5020 S. Cornell Ave.  Chicago, IL 60615 Phone: 773-324-5520

Opening Reception: Friday,
December 8, 2006 5 - 8 pm

View the debut of my new series of concept designs for fashion accessories, developed with the future in mind. Designed to function without batteries or electricity, these items will be a trendy answer to the rising temperatures of our world.

--Remember it's not Global Warming,
it's "Climate Change."
Read more about this group exhibition below.

[Images: detail views,
"Climate Change Paper Fan Series" 2006,
concept design,
inkjet prints on paper]

December 8-17, 2006
Converging Patterns examines some contemporary ideas of advance design in extreme weather conditions. Featuring two and three-dimensional works by local and national professional artists as well as graduate and undergraduate students from the SAIC, Converging Patterns addresses the question of our future fashions in light of dramatic social and environmental changes taking place now.

When our climate and environment change in the next few decades, what will you be wearing? Will fashion aid our survival and protect us from infectious diseases or natural disasters? The products we use are shaped by the changes in our world. Our fashion patterns will have to be altered to converge style with utility in the years to come. If sustaining life will be the main goal of 21st century fashion, how will designers incorporate science and technology to improve style?

This exhibition presents a collaborative effort between artists and the School of the Art Institute’s Defining Twentieth Century Dress class. It is supported by The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s Department of Fashion, the Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism, and the Student Exhibition Group.

Located in Hyde Park, accessible by Metra train stop at 53rd St. and #6 bus. Cross street, East Hyde Park Blvd. For more information & directions visit The Hyde Park Art Center's website below (or click on "Converging Patterns" under links.)

http://www.hydeparkart.org/exhibitions/2006/12/converging_patterns.php
http://www.hydeparkart.org or call (773) 324-5520. 

November Projects, Update

2006-12-03T15:37:00.001-06:00

Opening Thursday, November 24, 2006
17:00 - 19:00
Merry-Beth Noble, "Paperwork" and
Hague Williams, New Prints
at Lessedra Gallery and Contemporary Projects, Sofia, Bulgaria

["World Girls" 2006, acrylic paint and graphite on paper, 12" x 14"]

Two concurrent solo exhibitions:
"Paperwork" will feature my new works on paper. The exhibit will include iconographic drawings and block prints derived from contemporary images of European & American culture such as national monuments, geographic locations and team sports.

Hague Williams will present handmade limited edition screenprints and block prints from his new "Headgear" series.
Please visit the Lessedra Gallery website for more information:
http://www.lessedra.com/gallery.php?d=current
(or click on Lessedra Gallery under links, and visit Current Exhibitions.)

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Thursday, November 18th
3rd Annual Apple Cider Screening at Heaven Gallery

1550 N. Milwaukee Ave.
Blue Line Stop, Damen/North Ave.
http://www.heavengallery.com/

Don't miss the public debut of "Animated Pages" a new digital video short I created while in Prague and Vienna this year. It is my 4-D answer to the sketchbook.

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Also
Be sure to visit the new "Paper Chase 2006" weblog and interactive forum.

http://www.paperchase2006.blogspot.com
(or click on Paper Chase under links)

This weblog shows images and describes the Paper Chase 2006 collaborative group project. The student project was designed to promote awareness of paper conservation and to address ideas of re-use and recycling. Offer your insight, comments and ideas as posts on the blog.

Part of the "Negotiated Localities" exhibition at the Betty Rymer Gallery,
at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
running from
November 17, 2006 - January 5, 2007
280 S. Columbus Drive
Chicago, IL 60603
312.443.3703
Gallery hours: Tuesday - Saturday,
10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
saic_brg@saic.edu
www.saic.edu/bettyrymer

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What's going on in your world?

2006-06-03T11:24:00.000-05:00

Svět, 2005
Digital photograph compilation
36" x 24"
for "Art\Umění, Love\Láska, Religion\Náboženství, War\Válka, Decadence/Dekadence, Death\Smrt" exhibition
Prague, Czech Republic
& Chicago, IL